Send a fax, email, or letter to your state representatives about the Federal Marriage Act. H.J. Res 56/S.J. Res 26 would not only deny the right to marry to same-sex couples in committed relationships but would also invalidate all state…
Papers Please/What Has Really Damaged
Papers please: Dudley Hiibel case Web site recounting the case of a Nevada rancher who was arrested for failing to produce ID after a policeman requested it. The legal battle that resulted has reached the Supreme Court. Video of the…
Email Down
Our main email addresses, along with our websites, are still down, so Sam, Katie, and I aren’t getting comment notifications. My spamcop.net address (technomom@) is still working if you wish to send a message to me that way. I’m scheduled…
I Miss Intelligent Discourse!
Why do I bother? I know the other students are unlikely to ever LOOK at the responses I’ve posted to their posts in the class discussion board. I find myself constitutionally incapable of NOT refuting something like this: “The Egyptians…
Fixed-Width Font?
I want a nicer fixed-width font than Courier or Courier New. It needs to be TTF and freely available. Suggestions?
Catching Up On the Lit Class
In the last week, I’ve finished units 1-3 of my literature course. I’m about halfway done with Unit 4. That represents about two months of assignments, so I feel pretty good about it. I do want to go back and…
Egyptian Influence on Ancient Hebrew Literature
If you read these, I must assume that you are a true glutton for punishment. Did ancient Egyptian literature have any influence on ancient Hebrew literature?
The Afterlife in Gilgamesh
And more, poor put-upon readers. The question was: The tragedy of mortality — the tragedy gains poignance by the absence ?? of a well developed system of belief in afterlife.
And She’s Got a Ph.D. in English?
This is friends-only simply in case the professor ever follows the link in my .sig here. I doubt it, but anyway… Remember me saying that I’m less than impressed with this professor? This is copied directly from the class site:…
Shamhat to Eve
More “I had to write it so I might as well post it.” One of the discussion questions in the lit course was: The role of women in Gilgamesh or rather the process of civilizing Enkidu. Do you see any…